Dragon Ball - The Movie: The Legend of Shenlong
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Dragon Ball - The Movie: The Legend of Shenlong |
| Original title | ド ラ ゴ ン ボ ー ル 神龍 の 伝 説 |
| transcription | Doragon Bōru: Shenron no densetsu |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| Studio | Tōei Dōga |
| length | 50 minutes |
| genre | Shōnen , martial art |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daisuke Nishio |
| script |
Toshiki Inoue , Akira Toriyama |
| music | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
Dragon Ball - The Movie: The Legend of Shenlong is the first of four films for the anime series Dragon Ball, which is based on the manga Dragon Ball of the mangaka Akira Toriyama . As with the anime series, Toriyama also worked on the script here. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 20, 1986 at the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival.
The film was first released by polyband in Germany on VHS and in 2004 on DVD . Carlsen Comics brought out the associated anime comics as early as 2000 (issues 1 to 4, April to July 2000). The story of the legend of Shenlong thus forms the start of the so-called Dragon Ball magazine, in which almost all other Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z films later appeared.
action
As in Dragon Ball volumes 1 and 2, Son-Goku meets the girl Bulma in The Legend of Shenlong and learns from her the meaning of the Dragon Balls . In the further course of the plot, both meet the "Lord of the Turtles" (Muten-Roshi), Yamcha, Pool and Oolong.
New characters are the little girl Panji and, as antagonists, King Gurume and his followers, Pasta and Bongo.
King Gurumes rules the country and leads a luxurious life. He no longer tastes food that he has already eaten once and he mutates into a monster due to his greed for new dishes. In his desperation of not getting any new and tasty dishes, he sees only one way out: The search for the Dragon Balls to summon the sacred dragon Shenlong, who is to fulfill his wish for a completely new dish.
While searching for the Dragon Balls, his followers destroy the land around a village and recover a large number of valuable gemstones, the so-called "rich stones". The oppressed villagers dislike this and only Panji and her father defend themselves.
In the meantime, Son-Goku meets Bulma and upon returning to his house discovers that his Dragon Ball with the four stars, which he takes to be his grandfather, has disappeared. Instead, he finds a coin. Bulma decides to pursue the thieves of the Dragon Ball and they both encounter Panji and Oolong as well as Yamcha and Pool. From Panji they learn that King Gurumes is not only looking for the Dragon Balls, but also has the Rich Stones digged. Panji is therefore on the way to Muten-Roshi to ask him for help in saving the village. Yamcha overhears the conversation and goes to Turtle Island with his companion Pool. He hopes that Muten-Roshi can eliminate Son-Goku so that he can get to the Dragon Balls more easily. Son-Goku and his friends arrive in Yamcha on Turtle Island and Muten-Roshi thinks they want to kill him. However, in a test with the Jindujun cloud , the Lord of the Turtles found that Goku was telling the truth. Bulma notices that Muten-Roshi has a Dragon Ball and asks to give it to her. But Gurume's followers have also located the Dragon Ball and want to take it. Muten-Roshi incapacitates her with a Kamehame-Ha and Panji makes her request to go with her and save the village. With the exception of Muten-Roshi, all of them make their way to the palace of Gurumes. There they fight against the king and his subordinates. Son Goku tries to defeat the ruler with a Kamehame Ha, but he does not succeed. Bulma eventually finds out that King Gurumes ate all of the Dragon Balls. She throws the last Dragon Ball, which she received from Muten-Roshi, into the throat of Gurumes, whereupon the dragon Shenlong appears. When she and Yamcha want to state their wish, Panji anticipates them, who wishes that there would be no more rich stones because they bring bad luck. (Her exact wish is that she wishes that none of this had happened and that everything was as it was before the Rich Stones. This also transforms the landscape back into its original nature.) Shenlong fulfills her wish, and after his disappearance, King appears Gurumes again in his old form.
The story ends with Gurumes that a normal apple is tasty, Bulma and Yamcha find each other and Son-Goku goes with the cloud of Jindujun on a new search for the Dragon Balls.
Voice actor
The German dubbing was implemented by the dubbing studio of the Berlin MME Studios.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Son Goku | Masako Nozawa | Ann have a lot |
| Bulma | Tsuru Hiromi | Sonja Spuhl |
| King Gurumes | Shūichirō Moriyama | Gerald Paradise |
| Panji | Tomiko Suzuki | Victoria Frenz |
| Panji's father | Shōzō Iizuka | Walter Alich |
| Bongo | Gorō Naya | Marlin Wick |
| pasta | Mommy Koyama | Diana Borgwardt |
| Yamcha | Tōru Furuya | Karlo Hackenberger |
| pool | Naoko Watanabe | Viktoria Voigt |
| Oolong | Naoki Tatsuta | Bernhard Völger |
| Muten Roshi | Kōhei Miyauchi | Karl Schulz |
| turtle | Daisuke Gori | Matthias Klages |
| Shenlong | Kenji Utsumi | Wolfgang number |
| teller | Joji Yanami | Roland Hemmo |
Movies
The Legend of Shenlong is the first of a total of four Dragon Ball films. It was followed by The Castle of Demons , Goku's First Tournament and The Road to Power . However, unlike the Dragon Ball Z films, the films in the Dragon Ball series are not follow-up or supplementary stories. They each tell a new and thus an alternative and independent version of the plot of the manga or the anime Dragon Ball. The films also contain characters that do not appear in either the manga or the anime Dragon Ball.
The 1989 real - life version Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (original title: Xīn qī lóng zhū Shén lóng de chuán shuō ) is based on the anime The Legend of Shenlong .